Monday, August 05, 2013

One World, One Currency

Once
there was a great saint in Kerala who said “One caste, One religion and One God
for all Humans”. He knew perfectly well that it is not possible in this highly
divisive world of ours. Yet he said it and set it as a goal for all of us. Such
great sayings from great visionaries exist at all times, similar to the
directive principles in our great constitution. But it is saddening to note
that the biggest human organization in the world viz. United Nations
Organisation (UNO), is not setting such goals and proclaiming it consistently
to set people thinking about it.

“One
world, One currency” must be foremost among such noble goals of UNO. It will
not only revolutionalize the world economy but also force the so-called leaders
to perform. Right now there is no common platform to compare the performance of
different nations and the cunning leaders get away by changing the goal posts.
The recent redefinition of poverty level in India is one such cruel and cunning
exercise of non-performing assets or over-performing liabilities that run the
world’s largest democracy. Imagine if USA,
Japan, India, Brazil,
Saudi and Uganda
have the same currency, namely Unos. In this age of absolutely equality at the
basic level, we should consider all grown up individuals earning less than 100
Unos a month as below the poverty level, irrespective of his or her purchasing
power at any part of the world.

Having
a common currency the world over will definitely change the world forever and
bring down the level of violence that is rising due to the increasing income
disparity. All humans are essentially
equal and UNO must be aiming for the basic equality (with fundamental rights to
food, clothing, shelter, education and health) irrespective of the race,
religion or nationality. A common world currency Unos will go a long way in the
path to achieving the basic essential equality among homo sapiens which none of
the ideologies or religions could achieve so far.